The Top 10 GREATEST Guitar riffs of the 50s and How to Play Them.

A new 7 part series that I've taken on. 7 decades, 7 top ten riff videos with instruction. The is a personal list so forgive me if I've missed any of your favorites along the way.
Part 2, the sixties • The Top 10 GREATEST Gu...
Here's a bunch of links to all the original songs if you'd like to check them out.
10 Raunchy - Bill Justis • Video
9 Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston • Jackie Brenston - Rock...
8 How High the Moon - Les Paul • HOW HIGH THE MOON LE...
7 Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters • Muddy Waters - Mannish...
6 Rebel Rouser - Duane Eddie • Duane Eddy - Rebel-rouser
5 Suzie Q - Dale Hawkins • Dale Hawkins - Susie-Q...
4 Smokestack Lightning - Howlin' Wolf • Howlin' Wolf - Smokest...
3 Rumble - Link Wray • Link Wray - Rumble [HQ...
2 La Bamba - Ritchie Valens • The Real Ritchie Valen...
1 Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry • Video
My attempt to learn and play Guitar World magazine's top 100 solos of all time. • Guitar World - 100 gre...
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[@WUTPanserbjorn]

The Led Zeppelins. Take my like!

[@Luraldir_Original]

This is a fantastic way to get better at riffs, literally practicing them through the ages,. These are early 50's ones are sooo intuitive its great fun

[@katness1531]

Awesome video! We've watched you for awhile, and it's been so great, seeing your progression! Love the music history 101 you include in these ~ so entertaining! Love your talent & passion for guitar & hope for amazing things for your channel. Thank you for all the work you put into your videos! 🤘🎸

[@KellyDeanAllenGuitar]

Thanks Katness! I appreciate that. This one was a lot of work. Learning, researching, writing a script, playing, recording, video editing etc... Kept me busy the past four days.

[@CorbCorbin]

I enthusiastically agree about Ritchie Valens. Amazing that he was a year younger than Hendrix and Lennon, a little older than McCartney, but really the same age as many of the artists who shaped the 60s. He would’ve still been in his 20s at the end of the decade. Wish I could hear what his music would’ve sounded like in the 60s. I remember seeing La Bamba when I was 9 or 10 years old, and it had a big influence on me wanting to play guitar. I was playing air guitar to stuff on the radio, and anything my older brother was listening to, but the story of how he came from poverty, got the pretty girl, who’s parents hated him, then thrust into superstardom. He comes back to pick up his high school girlfriend after he’s had a hit, and writes a hit about her! Then the concert at the end just seals the deal. I wanted to live that story. Not the plane crash, but even that has a very dark allure that has been romanticized throughout literature and art. Awesome choices for your list, and I’ve been binging videos since I saw a lesson in my recommended list on KZbin. Hope others are getting recommendations for your channel, as I’m sure they’ll love it too.

[@watamatafoyu]

Yah, what was in the water when they grew up?

[@dungeonsandstarfields]

What a gold mine of content

[@dustink2763]

Love this idea, can't wait to see the new series unfold!

[@KellyDeanAllenGuitar]

Thanks! I thought it would be a good idea. Lots of top 10 lists for guitar out there, but I figured that seeing as riffs generally aren't overly complicated, that they wouldn't be too difficult to do tutorials for within the same video. Nor, make the video 2 hours long.

[@georgesember9069]

Great fun!! I’m 80 and have always loved instrumentals since I didn’t have a singing voice. I do believe Dave Yorko, of Johnny and the Hurricanes, payed loads of hot guitar, though not necessarily blues oriented!

[@SirRitz7]

Your sudden smile always makes me chuckle! Love your attitude man, keep uploading!

[@markb.3412]

Ahh, great idea for a new series! And these are more in-line with my playing abilities haha, will learn a few of 'em.

[@commanderthorkilj.amundsen3426]

James Burton was Ricky Nelson and Elvis Presley's guitarist--highly respected in country, rockabilly. And when you mention blues voices, Chester Howlin' Wolf Burnette, you have to include one who came later, but gone too soon, SRV. Stevie Ray Vaughan was a humble man, and always honored the pioneers, but his "gravel-over-honey" voice was unique. Any blues fan needs to hear SRV's version of Wolf's "I'm Leavin' You, Commit A Crime" on a New Orleans riverboat, '87, or when he shook the little ladies in Paris up in '86 wearin' his Indian headress with the same number. Back then, no one was amalgamating Hendrix-Albert King-Howlin' Wolf anything like Stevie Ray Vaughan. It was quite unique to a decade of Michael Jackson-Prince-The Police type music. He has been widely emulated since.

[@SilentHouseStudios]

Dope I'm gonna try some of these.

[@KellyDeanAllenGuitar]

They're not too difficult for the most part. The one that gave me the most trouble was Smokestack Lightning by Howlin Wolf.

[@jbdudeguy6808]

Great idea, can't wait to watch the rest

[@antonematos6241]

Nice detail at 13:55. As of June 7, 2023 Mr. Duane Eddy is still around and Alive N Kickin. The song that made me want to play the guitar, Rebel Rouser, after hearing it in a video game that came out in 2010 when I was only 8. Very nice playing and great video 👍🏼

[@mahrizhossain4308]

Mafia 2. Legendary game.

[@matthewmeyer5475]

Great video. Can't wait to sit down and play them all.

[@georgelange5272]

Love this

[@robertjolley88]

Yes, I love this! Thanks so much. Giving me something to do on this lockdown. Keep rockin'

[@robertjolley88]

Hilarious how simple some of these are. Incredible to see how far things have come along.

[@richardmyers2385]

Excellent, Thank You

[@FranciscoGarcia-hi3zx]

Awesome covers and list🤘🏽

[@MrTamiya89]

AWESOME Video Dude. 😃👍.

[@joshyepyepzo8356]

Kelly im a huge fan man, your videos are unique and you deserve a lot more views. I legit am only subscribed to Carl Brown,Marty and yourself. Hope your channel takes off man

[@KellyDeanAllenGuitar]

Well thank you! Lofty company indeed, haha. I really appreciate that. Something will happen I'm sure. A viral video, a mention from one of the big guys, etc.... This organic growth is painful, haha. Actually it's fine. I enjoy doing it. Never even set out to be a KZbinr, it just kind of happened. KZbin's a big place, hard to get a foothold, but I'll keep slugging away at it.

[@ajk240]

Great stuff! Thanks so much. Amazing guitar channel, love your videos.

[@KellyDeanAllenGuitar]

Thanks very much! Been two years now, would love to see it take of a bit. KZbin algorithm hates me, haha. Small fish in a big pond I guess. I'll keep slugging away at it because I enjoy doing it and it keeps me busy and out of trouble.

[@HarryKenyon]

You caught me on that one haha

[@CorbCorbin]

“Surely, someone took a literal beating...” 🤣

[@michaeldeo7564]

Awesome video, I look forward to the rest! Rumble was also the reason Jimmy Page picked up a guitar.

[@georgesember9069]

Great idea!!

[@CorbCorbin]

Really love the videos, and I really enjoy you telling the stories behind the music. You’d make an excellent teacher. *Upon hearing your cover of “Rumble,” I walked straight outside and punched my neighbor in the face. Old lady had it coming for years! 🤣 Funny how mistakes lead to revolutionary moments in music. There’s a similar story about Fuzz, and how Glenn Snoddy came across it by accident. I won’t be surprised if you tell it when you do the best licks of the sixties, but I’ll tell it anyway. Heard in Marty Robbins’s 61’ song “Don’t Worry,” guitarist Grady Martin’s six string bass was plugged into a console with a “defective” transformer(transistor?), and it produced what sounded very wrong to Snoddy. He wanted to redo it, but Martin and a few others there convinced him that they had just come across a new sound. Other artists heard that song and all went to Snoddy to get him to engineer a track for them, and get that Fuzzy sound(if they even called it fuzz at first). Snoddy took the bad transformer(transistor) out, and then built a circuit into a small foot operated box which would eventually become the Maestro Fuzz-Tone FZ-1. Amazing how the same fuzz circuits are used by musicians now. Those same Fender and Vox Combos, Marshall Heads, even Supro combos(Love the recent Black Magick) are still go to amps for so many players.

[@terryrasor5495]

That was dope!

[@shawn2789]

Great video.

[@erich8955]

Great stuff!

[@kylermillsap8068]

Chuck Berry’s “No Money Down” off of his first album, After School Session, sounds like “Bad to the Bone.” You could say it also sounds like “Manish Boy.”

[@davecooke7868]

The second “A” is an up stroke😮

[@randallhaney7909]

Yup "Runchey" was the first song I ever learned; followed quickly by "Honky Tonk/Memphis" and "Sleepwalk. And then? By the time I got "Rumble" down. I never looked back .. lol

[@ryankelsey9646]

Fantastic job! I'm gonna love this new series! Someone watching horror movies in the background at 31:45?

[@KellyDeanAllenGuitar]

Probably my son screaming about something, haha.

[@yocraigst]

Best part of Rumble, for me, is that bass!!!

[@psychedelicguitarartbyjima3850]

[@rockinredneck57]

10 from the 50s, fairly easy, from the 60's, the degree of difficulty goes up not to mention the possible number of songs to choose from. The 70s? Just 10? Nah. One band could carry that alone. After that it seems to drop off.

[@teana3229]

I'm hoping you can help me figure out what oldies song my late veteran grandfather had as his ring tone. I can only gather that it's a guitar playing dun-nun-nun-nun...dun nun nun nun, dun nun nun nun, nun nun nun nun. Sorry I can't leave an audio to better explain it, and my uncle who was to help me recently passed from a heart attack. I don't who else to ask but strangers.

[@edwardsmith4353]

Where are the ten from the 50s?

[@paulmadmonkeyman2822]

Tabs please.

[@watamatafoyu]

I think Susie Q was the first rock'n'roll song. Change my mind. Just kidding, I don't care.

[@toastoftowne1076]

I’d watch tv if I wanted commercials. Nice idea though.

[@KellyDeanAllenGuitar]

Holy smokes dude, I honestly had no idea that happened with that video, or why. I certainly didn't do that on purpose. Fixing now. Sorry about that. Thanks for pointing it out.

[@toastoftowne1076]

@@KellyDeanAllenGuitar no worries. Sorry for being rude. It was a smashing idea. Happy new year

[@KellyDeanAllenGuitar]

@@toastoftowne1076 no worries man. The video got copyright claimed so I suppose that they threw all the ads on it. I certainly didn't. Thankfully it allowed me to remove most of them. Was a bit ridiculous.

[@johnmoyle4195]

Don’t say “…and how to play them” if you don’t actually know how to play them. Raunchy is completely wrong. Stick to the history, which you do well. (Drop the comedy though).